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How TO Make a Good Wife.

BE attentive and courteous to her.
BE cheerful when you enter your house.
Don't be afraid to praise the neat room
and bright fire. Don't be afraid to
praise her mending and her skill in
fashioning and making. Don't fail to
give her words of appreciation when
ever you can cOnscientiously approve.
Never deceive her; be ever true to
her. Let your conduct be such that
she will be proud of you. Be so up
right that she will be happy in teaching
your children to honor you. DO not
sit silent all the evening, absorbed in
reading your book or newspaper. Give
your family some of your attention.
Tell them the amusing things that have
frightened your days labor. Speak
kindly to the children. Play and talk
with them few moments after supper.
Interest yourself in your wife's employ
ment. Encourage her when she is
down-hearted; be glad with her when
she is happy Let her know by words
and action that she is appreciated. and
you make her happier that she walks
by your side. Don't wait to tell the
world upon marble that which will be
so grateful to her loving heart to hear
from your lips. Share with her your
good fortune as unselfshly as you do
your i'll. Let her walk by your side,
your honored companion, your strong
hand helping her over the rough places
and sustaining her when wearied lest
she faint.-ETcbdnge
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Free Speech.

If none were to speak except to voice
public sentiment there would be no use
speaking at all; for in that case there
would be no opposition to overcome.
The purpose of all rational discussion
is to create and intensity public senti-
ment, to incite men to work together
for common object Discussion for
such purpose should be practically, as
well as theoretically, free. Yet it is not
free anywhere on the face of the earth,
nor until men learn wisdom will it be
free. To-day man speaks on one side
of public question, and many of those
opposed think he ought to be tolerated,
while those in sympathy with him de-
mand free speech. Tomorrow another
man presents the other side, and those
who demanded free speech yesterday
for their champion mob the champion
of the opposition. To the average man
free speech is for his side and no tolera-
ton for the other. Such is human in
consistency. hiladephiaNo amer
lean.
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sliding and sparkling in the sunshine
round the little island of the ship, you
say to yourself that at this moment
Tom is striding down to town to bust
ness, and Jane is getting the children
off to school, and Bridget is sweeping
the front parlor. You know how they
all look, even to necktie and shoelace.
But Tom and Jane and Bridget, and
even the precious children, are bodiless
eXistencies, unreal and shadowy, be-
longing to life of which you were once
indeed part in that phantasmal past
before the actual world was bounded
for you by the strait of walls of the
ship. Under these conditions one must
rest. An immaterial barrier, impossi-
BILE to cross, rises between you and
your anxieties. Even on dry land the
effect of the sea-change fingers. There
remains benefcent remoteness about
the wrinkled care" whose hateful
visage was so omnipresent at home.
Besides, you are healthily weary every
day with the business of sightseeing,
and you "snore upon the flint " of
comfortless bed in third-rate inn,
while at home you would have found
the down pillow hard" Distracted
from its old solicitudes, the brain re-
pairs itself, and the frightened mind is
alive to every new impression.--Er.
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A Floating Island.

The floating island is the greatest
natural curiosity in the town of New
bury, and perhaps in the whole country.
1t is in Westinghouse pond, back of
tho Oldtown cemetery, and possibly
many of the younger people of its i'm
mediate vicinity have never heard of it.
We notice that many of the trees have
fallen before the woodlands axe, and
some have died from natural causes;
and therefore it does not show the
thrifty appearance of half century
ago. 1t is the only floating island that
we know of in the world. So far as is
ascertaned it rests in the water, rising
and falling with the level of the pond.
1t is a matted mass of tree roots, with
earth enough to support large trees,
chiefly willows, but never resting on
any solid bottom; and indeed we are
not aware that a solid bottom has ever
been reached in the pond. Nathaniel
Morse, who has studied its formation
and knows more about it than any other
living man, let an iron pipe down more
than fifty feet without reaching any
substantial impeachment to its descent,
and the same pipe is there now.-Neo-
JtWyport Herald
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BLOOMINGTON, Ill.,, September IS, 1882

MesSrS. +. j. Cheney Dc Co., Toledo, Ohio
have taken Halls Catarrh Cure. Had
catarrh all my life; am forty-eight years old.
Had asthma nineteen years and dreadful
cough for five years. Have taken every
thing; went to the Hot Springs | have
doctored with the doctors here. / have
done nothing but take medicine for nineteen
years. When | commenced using Hall S
Catarrh Cure | was almost dead. | sent for
the doctor the day got Halls Catarrh Cure,
and told him that | would die any way
and that would try your medicine. | was
very bad. How | suffered for nine yearsl
| could hardly breathe at times. | saw
Halls Catarrh Cure advertised in the pa
pers and commenced taking it, | would
have been under the ground to-day If it had
not been for that. | have not had one bad
spell of coughing since. In breathing my
head feels well and | am well. 1t has done
me thousand dollars worth of good.
it has done for me, taking it, and it is help
ing them. | only wish that every one who
has catarrh, asthma and bad cough could
see me, so that | could tell them all to
take it. All that know me here know how
| have suffered Il have been here since
1859 and say to me that " am so glad that
you found something that could cure you"
Every one says, How much better you
look. The doctors say they are glad
found Halls Catarrh Cure, as they could
not cure me. cannot express my gratitude
to you for the good Halls Catarrh Cure has
done me- You can use as much of this letter
as will do the afflicted good. Publish it to
the whole world-it is all true and they
should know it. JOSEPHINE CHRISTIAN,
iO6 East North Street
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The Horse as a MelOdiSt.

Every body has heard the night-hawk
and owl. The bird-sounds of the coun-
try are familiar topics. l suggest the
sound that stableful of horses makes
munching their grain. Did you ever
hear it? Years ago, l have no doubt.
1t is very agreeable. A sound of ami
NAL comfort, of well-deserved reward,
of plenty; yes, rich sound. Stand
and listen to the grinding of oats and
hay! Man should eat silently; he is
forbidden to allow his food to appeal
to more than one sense. But your
horse gratifies both taste and hearing
as he eats. Old Gray there, now; he
pauses at intervals just to hear old
Tom-his mate in the next stall-grind
his hay. Shrewd old Gray. By that
trick he gets little benefit out of his
neighbours rack-he tastes his own and
hears his mate taste his. What else
does he pause for? Now he goes at it
again. Now they are all at it, the six
horses; grind, grind. 1t is one of the
curious sounds. | like to hear it,
Merely to think of it in some tasteless
city day gives me an appetite ,-Rer
Emory +. Haynes, IN american Maga-
zine
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Getting Away.

The stay-at-home knows not the rest
fulness that descends upon the spirit
with that sense of the futility of worry
which the weighing of the anchor brings,
says Ho1per'S Bdzar. The seasick of
course are Indifferent to all human
interests for the interminable moment
of their malady; but seasickness, save
of a light and temporary kind, is the
exception in these days of large, steady
and wel-ventilated ships, while even
at the worst it is often a remedial
measure. To the well the voyage offers
usually a curious and interesting psy-
Geological experience. AS the shores
fade in the distance, so the busy life
upon them fades also into unreality.
Sitting on the deck at nine o'clock in
the morning, the green waste of water
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mistellanp.
New Every Morning.

Every day Is fresh beginnings
Every morn is world made new;
You who are weary of sorrow and SHINING
Here Is a beautiful hope for you;
hope for me and hope for you.
All the past things are past and over.
The tasks are done and the tears are shed:
Yesterdays errors let yesterday cover;
Yesterdays wounds, which smarted and bled,
Are healed with the healing which night has shed.
Yesterday now is part of forever,
Bound up in sheaf which God holds tight
With glad days and sad days and bad days which
never
Shall visit us more with their bloom and tn cir blight
Their fullness of sunshine sorrowfu night
Let them go, since we cannot relieve them,
Cannot undo and cannot atone;
God in his mercy receive. forgive them,
Only the new days our own;
To-day Ia ours and to-day alone
Here are the skies all FURNISHED brightly,
Here is the spent earth all reborn,
Here are the tired limbs springing lightly
To face the sun and to share with the morn
In the chrism of dew and the cool of dawn.
Every day is fresh beginning;
Listen, my SOUL to the glad refrain,
And spite of old and older SHINING,
And puzzles forecasted and possible pain,
Take heart with the day and begin again.
Susan Cooiidge.
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Wonderful Strength of the POrters of
COnstantinOple.

Another curiosity of Constantinople,
which does not excite disgust, but, on
the contrary, surprise akin to admira-
ton, is the bdmeJ, or porter. His name,
which has in Arabic the same origin as
that of camel, describes him quite well.
He is, in fact, camel without the
hump; but this hump is, however,
more or less represented by large
leather cushion resting on his back
and intended to support his burden.
Moreover, the Turkish porter has the
sobriety, the patience and the strength
of the camel. The French proverb,
AS strong as Turk" must have
been suggested by the sight of this bur-
den-carrying biped, whose back is
strong enough to bear frightful loads.
One hardly dares to tell of some of their
feats of muscle for fear of being con-
sidered boaster. Here are two, how
ever: One day when l changed my
lodgings | had three men come to move
my piano. They tied it up firmly with
straps. Then two of them went away.
and the third, STOPPING down, raised
the piano, and, placing it upon his back,
carried it distance that took more than
three-quarters of an hour. On another
occasion L met humel who was carry
ing upon his back an enormous calash
the wheels and axletrees of which had
been taken off and fastened to one side
of the vehicle. The only thing want
ing was the two horses on his arms.
The passers-by, accustomed as they
were to these prodigies of strength,
stopped to see this diminutive Hercules
walk by, who disappeared under his
load, taking an easy and even step, and
uttering at the same time the word
guarda." The frugality of the hamel
is equally surprising. Who knows but
it is one of the secrets of his strength?
He never eats any cooked food, except
little rice, and kind of soft and in
sipid sea-cracker, called pide in Turk
ish and taking the place of bread. His
ordinary food consists of cucumbers,
which he eats with the skin on, salad
without salt or seasoning, and uncooked
onions. HdmelS never drink any wine,
beer or spirituous liquors, and thus
present conspicuous refutation to the
claims of those that insist that the
drinking of alcoholic and fermented
beverages sustains and increases ones
strength. In times of drought they fol-
low the example of camels, their
brethren. If they are thirsty, very well :;
they do not find fault, but wait until
wet weather comes.-M. Julliurd, IN
J,me Cosmopolitan.
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Travelling i'm Guatemala.

In the absence of commerce there
is but little travelling, and the stranger
finds great difficulty in obtaining in
formation about roads, even from the
.jeteS of the departments through which
the roads pass. 1t is of course not
peculiar to Guatemala to find ig-
norance of local geography and complete
inability to judge of distances, but the
Guatemalans have happy way of in
dicating the condition of road in the
expressions, "a big league" " little
league" and on rivers they usually
reckon distances by rueltaS or bends.
While the North American must have
express-trains and considers every
way-station an attack on his comfort,
his neighbor in Central America hires
men enough to carry his luggage-and
each man can carry from five to six
drrObdS Can drrObd is twenty-five
pounds)-and, mounting his horse or
mule, plods leisurely along up hill and
down dale, his bearers generally keep
ing up with him. There is very little
wear and tear in such journey; one is
never in hurry, and it is hurry that
eXhausts one, not reasonable work.
For myself, it was restful kind of
travel. Ny saddle-bags contained the
needful clothes, my blanket was rolled
behind the saddle, my rubber poncho
with map and notebook in front. One
man carried a coffee-pot and supply
of coffee and sugar, my hammock and
Photographic outfit; another, sup
ply of photo plates, my sons hammock
and various articles gathered on the
way. We rode along chatting and en-
joying everything, even the rain that
ran into our boots, and when we
wished to make photograph whistle
brought our mozO to our side, and in
less than fifteen minutes the camera
was unpacked (and everything must be
rain-prooD, two exposures made, and
we were again in the saddle. Much
more convenient than an eXpress-train
Then, where no one travels, a journey
is an exploration.-JV. T. brigham, IN
Sclibner'S Magdzine for Jme.
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Seletteo Storm.
The Wreckers.

out. out. We crashing, hungry pack,
And scour the desert salt and wide;
But what we take bring straightway back
And toss 1t hither up the tide
From main to main we coursing go,
We bring the deep-hulled ships to bay;
And then returned with sure refow
Your captures on the beach We lay.
Is it 1berian grapes ye bring,
Or slender length of Indian cane2
Or is 1t some old sovereign's ring
That long in secret CULTS hath lain?
We will not bring me these to-day?
Then cast me here upon the shore
A mast the storm hath shorn away,
rudder or a broken oar
build my boat-a fishers smack,
build 1t well, we seamen gonel
With what the waves have yielded back
The tmbers from your vessels drawn.
built my house on seaboard ground,
build it well with far-brought trees,
With blanched drift made smooth and round
BY the swift lathe of circling seas.
To whom shall a salvage pay7
To you who drank the mortal deep,
Whose craving hands reach through the spray,
Whose voices sound within my sleep!
Edith NJ Thomas, IN brooklyn Magazine.
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BIGAIL THOMsON's ESTATE.

N COMMISSIONERS NOTICE.
The undersigned, having been appointed by the
Honorable Probate Court for the District of Ran
dolph Commissioners, to receive, examine and adj
Just all claims and demands of all persons against
the estate of Abigail Thomson, late of Wiamstown,
in said District deceased and all claims exhibited in
offset thereto, hereby give notice that we will meet
for the purposes aforesaid at the dwelling house of
David NJ. Smith, in Willlamsown, ON the LIST day of
o'clock until four o'clock p NJ each Of said days, and
that six months from the 10Th day of May A ID. 1887,
is the time limited by said Court for said creditors
to present their claims to us for examination and
allowance
Dated at Williamstown. this 2d day of June A. ID.
1857. GEORGE W. LYNDE, ,,.... ,..
DENISON MARTIN. ('oHlilisSlohels'
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Geaal Notites.
EDWARD E. MILLERs ESTATE.
w 7. DILLINGHAM;. co,,,,.
T. g. HOOK Err Noiiiiiii'
ALPHONsO ABBoTT's ESTATE.

"A COMMISSIONERS NOTICE.
The undersigned, having been appointed by the
Honorable Probate Court for the District of Wash
ington Commissioners, to receive. examine and adj
just all claims and demands of all persons against
the estate of Aphonso Abbott. late of Calais,
in said District deceased and all claims exhibited
In offset thereto, hereby give notice that we will
meet for the purposes aforesaid at the late resi-.
dence of said Abbott at East Calais the I'd
day of July and LIST day OF October next from
one o'clock p. NJ. until four o'clock p. NJ each of
said days. and that six months from the 23d day
of May A. d. 1851 is the time limited by said
Court FOR said creditors to present their claims
us for examination and allowance.
Dated at Calais this 10th day of June, A. ID. 1857.
, ALBERT DWINELL, Commissioners
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MARY BACON's ESTATE.


The undersigned, having been appointed by the
Honorable Probate Court for the District of Wash
ington Commissioners. to receive examine and ad-
just all claims and demands of all persons against
the estate of Mary Bacon, late of Montpelier. in
said District, deceased, and all claims exhibited in
offset thereto hereby give notice that win meet
for the purposes aforesaid at the Office of Homer W.
HeatOn in Montpelier aforesaid, the 5th day of
July and Cd day of December next, from ten o'clock
A. NJ. until four o'clock r. NJ each of said days, and
that six months from the 18th day of June A. D. 1857
is the time limited by said Court for said creditors
present their claims to us for examination and al.
lowance.
Dated at Montpelier, this 7th day of June, A. d.
1857. HOMER w HEATON, Co,o,,issi,,,or,
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ARTISTIC results can be had in col
oring photographs, ETC., with Diamond
Dyes, 1t is fascinating and very profit
able. Send ten cents for colored cab
met photograph for sample and full
directions to Wells, Richardson X Co.,
Burlington, Vt.
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A LITTLE girl in the primary school
was asked to tell the difference between
the words A" foot - and feet" She
said, 4" One feet is foot and whole
lot of foots is a feet"
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j. HUBBARDS ESTATE.

n
In Probate Court, held at Montpelier, In said Dis.
trict on the eth day of June, A. ID. 1857:
Frederick j. Dieter, Administrator, de bonts non
with the will annexed, of the estate of Timothy
j. Hubbard late of Montpelier, in said Dis
trict. deceased presents his administration ac
count for examination and allowance, and makes
application for decree Of distribution and par
tition of the estate of said deceased. Whereupon
1t is ordered by said Court that said account and said
application he referred to II session thereof, to he
held at the Probate Office in said Montpelier the
LIST day of July, A. ID. 1857, for hearing and de
csion thereon: And, it is further ordered, that
tice hereof be given to all persons interested by
the Vermont WdtchmdR d State journal, newspaper
puonshed az MONTPELIER previous TO SAID time az
time and place, and show cause, il any they may
have, why said account should not he allowed and
such decree made. by the COurt-Attest
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lNKUs q. CAMP,s EsTATE.

y STATE or VERMONT Washington District SIS,
In Probate Court, held at Montpelier, in said Dis.
trict, on the LIST day of June, A. ID. 1857;
Harriet Camp ADMINISTRATIVE, win the VII an,
Barre, in said District, deceased, presents her
administration account for examination and al
lowance and makes application for decree
of distribution and partition of the estate of
said deceased. Whereupon, II Is ordered by said Court
that said account and said application be referred
to session thereof to be heldat the Probate ONCE
IN said Montpelier, ON the oath day of June,
A. ID. 1857 for hearing and decision thereon; And,
1t is further ordered, that notice hereof be given
to all persons interested by publication of the same
three weeks successfully IN the Vermont Wdfchmdn
a. state Journal, newspaper publishedat Montpelier
previous to said time appointed for hearing that they
may appear at said time and place, and show cause
II any they may have, why said account should not
be allowed and such decree made.
By the Court.-Attest,
OSLO HIRAM CARLETON, Judge.
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II SiAIE OF NEKMDNI' WashlnHtuh Distrlcti s.
trct on the LIST day of June, A. ID. 1857.
Charles IL. French, Administrator of the estate Of
trct deceased, presents his administration ac-
count for examination and allowance and makes
partition of the estate of said deceased. Where
upon, it is ordered by said Court that said ac-
count and said application be referred to a session
thereof, to he held at the Probate ONCE, in
said Montpelier ON the LIST day of July. A.
it is further ordered that notice hereof be given
to all persons interested by publication of the same
three weeks successfully in the Vermont Watch
nan d STATE Journal a newspaper published at
Montpelier, previous to said time appointed for hear
ing that they may appear ut said time and place,
and show cause, ii any they may have, why said
account should not be allowed and such decree
made. by the Court.-Attest,
oslo HIRAM CARLETON, Judge.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-11-10

Great excitement prevails in
Chicago over the approaching ex-
cutiOn of the condemned anarch-
lists. Governor Oglesby has re-
ceiyed many letters threatening
his life if he permits them to hang,
and many letters from leading cit
liens advising executive clemency
as matter of policy. Fear is en-
tertained that the entire city will
be torn to pieces with dynamite
by the anarchists friends if execu-
tive clemency is not extended.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-11-10

The propriety Of holding a
Muscle Shoals Convention at De-
catur on November ODD, is being
discussed. A committee has been
appointed to arrange details for
securing full representation to
the proposed convention. Gen,
Wheeler, and Senators Pqgh aud
Morgan will be invited to address
the meeting.-Flowrenne Wave.